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Is Delta Regional Authority on chopping block?

WASHINGTON — The Delta Regional Authority has invested $108 million in 718 projects in eight states, including Arkansas, Mississippi and...

Norm Dicks’ decades in Congress brought a lot of money back to home state

WASHINGTON – Pentagon chief Leon Panetta strode into the Cannon Caucus Room on Capitol Hill, surrounded by military officers in dress-green...

What the Sandy Bill Teaches Us About Our Spending Problem

Among all the discussion about the outlines of a deal to avert the fiscal cliff, one thing is notably absent: details about spending cuts....

Groups: Sandy Relief Bill Filled with Pork Unrelated to Disaster Relief

Conservatives and taxpayer watchdog groups have examined the Senate's $60.4 billion Hurricane Sandy relief bill and have discovered it funds...

Agencies paralyzed by fiscal cliff, endless succession of CRs

So far this year, U.S. EPA has frozen hiring, delayed contracts and sharply curtailed travel, all to deal with the uncertainty of its future...

Congress Piles the Pork into Hurricane Sandy Relief

The millions of dollars for projects unrelated to recovery from Hurricane Sandy included in the Sandy relief act is the latest in a long...

Editorial: Pass Hurricane Sandy aid at the right size

Even if states devastated by Hurricane Sandy don’t need exactly $60.4 billion in federal aid to fund disaster relief, Congress should not...

Sandy’s impact underscores need for national mitigation strategy

One hundred and eleven homes burned to the ground in Queens, flooding in parts of Manhattan forced the financial markets and subways to...

Over $9 Billion in Sandy Bill for Transportation Spending That Won’t Occur for Two Years

Taxpayers for Common Sense vice president Steve Ellis e-mails reporters a list of projects getting funded in the $60.4 billion Sandy relief...

A car for the Justice Department inspector, and more in Sandy relief bill

Writing a bill for disaster relief from Hurricane Sandy surely is fairly straightforward, with aid concentrated say on loans and...

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...